Harold Nicolson

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The healing power of nature is a theme that’s central to many of this year’s crop of great gardening books.
A bumper crop of books to inspire every gardener’s passion

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that nature has the power to soothe and restore us even in the very darkest of times, a theme that’s cent(...)

Doneraile Court, Co Cork.
State millions and good memories: Bringing a grand house back to life

Getting into Doneraile Court involves climbing past the fallen rim of a balustrade which once enclosed the orangery where diarist and diplomat Harold (...)

“After careening wildly to the right across a number of lanes, the former cabinet minister swerved left before stopping in the middle of the road.” Photograph: Getty Images
Brexit: Trapped inside a fatal metaphor for UK departure

We were leaving a party in an inaccessible corner of central London and the former cabinet minister’s offer of a lift home was generous and welcome. W(...)

Lord Dufferin (in the top hat, back row) at a family gathering in Barrackpore, India, around 1880. Photograph: Alinari via Getty
The Lost Imperialist review: the first Victorian celebrity
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  • March 7, 2015, 01:00

‘He is I suppose the most popular man in Europe, but what a bore it must be, having to keep up such a reputation.” This 1879 judgment of the first (...)

June Blake’s exciting, contemporary garden in County Wicklow. Photographs: Richard Johnston
Don’t be afraid to dig deep in the garden this year

‘New beginnings”, “a fresh start”, “a new leaf”; these are the words that rattle round our heads in the fledgling weeks of a brand new year. In the(...)